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Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Dancing the Steps to Success in Her Teens

steps to successStarting a business at any age can be daunting. Most would expect a teenage girl to be worrying about boys, pimples or fashion and not the steps to success in business.

Jemma Nicoll started Inspire Dance Academy at the age of 16 after attending a dance conference run by Project Dance, a New York Company who shared a similar vision of working in the community with dance.

Combining her new business with the completion of her HSC was a massive challenge. The HSC is strenuous in itself, so balancing an entrepreneur business mixed with the physically demanding role of teacher forced her to push herself to the limit.

Although she was organised and had good time management skills it was time to put them to the test. A great support network of family and friends also helped to get her through long days and nights of study and dance.

Jemma’s approach to life and business was the same. Her obstacles became somewhat exciting to overcome, because she knew it was something she really wanted to accomplish…a little challenge couldn’t get in her way!

She has graduated and is now pouring all her energy into her business, changing lives and minds as she dances her steps to success.

Shane Krider- Polaris Media Group

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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Tips to Increase Your Entrepreneur Skills

Entrepreneur skillsMany successful business owners work on their entrepreneur skills constantly. They examine how people get things done and they are both natural thinkers and problem solvers.

Scott Halford, an internationally known speaker and writer on brain-based success behaviours, believes we get so busy running our businesses that all of our learning is either on the job or in life. However, there are ways to keep your mind in tip-top shape so that you are always engaged in the learning process.

His advice is to read one article a day written by someone with an opposing opinion. Studies show that your brain chemistry switches when you are met with competing knowledge or an opinion that flies in the face of your own experience.

Even if you become frustrated, push through, as it will help you when you have to make difficult decisions in your entrepreneur business. You will be able to hear other viewpoints and take an overall look at the problem at hand.

Also, teach someone something that you’re passionate about. The teaching process reveals new learning for you since people have different questions about what you’re teaching. It forces you to rethink your subject in new and challenging ways.

Surrounding yourself with people who don’t think just like you do is sometimes scary but be brave enough to have dissention and you just may learn entrepreneur skills you would never have dreamed of.

Shane Krider- Polaris Media Group

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Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Self-reliance Grows During Women’s Small Business Month

entrepreneur businessWomen sometimes surprise themselves with their resilience and self-reliance. October is small business month, and I thought we’d take a look at a quirkily successful lady.

Linda Hollander is a big fan of Estee Lauder who started out doing makeovers at local salons and grew her business into a global cosmetics empire. Lauder’s self reliance was so inspiring that she and her best friend, Sheryl Felice, launched a packaging business called The Bag Ladies, selling custom-printed paper and plastic bags to leading-edge companies. She made every mistake and faced every kind of business hardship imaginable. The girls learned self-reliance and pushed through the roadblocks finally breaking through and picking up huge business. Clients like Disney, Cisco Systems, Mattel, Universal Studios, Nissan, Yamaha, Sony, Revlon and many more besides were drawn to their entrepreneur business because The Bag Ladies is one of the only women-owned packaging firms in the country and the women in charge at the respective companies were attracted to their whole package.

Linda started out worse than broke. She was buried in debt, involved in abusive relationships and couldn’t find a way out of the poverty trap. Now self-reliance has changed her life and October being Women’s Small Business Month, I am sure more women will be hot on their heels.

Shannon Lavenia- Polaris Media Group

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